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 Pottery. 385 proficiency in his art, he was induced to give more and more prominence to forms derived from the inexhaustible store of the vegetable kingdom. A vase introduces us to a whole Flo. 472.— Broken c plant, perhaps the muscari comosum, whilst another shows a species of iris (Figs. 471, 472). Again, an ivy wreath fills the field of a fragment from the first shaft-grave at Mycenae (PI. Fio. 473.— Circulnr box. Al'tica. XXI.).' Elsewhere we find a few heart-shaped leaves either arranged into chaplets, or isolated (Figs. 457, 473). At other ' Mykenische Thott^fiiae.